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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Tottenham 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Miss Joan Came, the senior speech therapist, comments that the principles underlying
present day speech therapy reflect current thought in associated professional fields.
Stammering and other emotionally-activated speech disorders are examples of conditions
in which preventive medicine may play a part, in that they are frequently found where
there is a disturbed mother/child relationship. Miss Came stresses that the therapist is
responsible for diagnosis, assessment, and planning of treatment which in each case is
specific for the patient.
The Handicapped Child
Distribution as at 31st December 1962
| Category | In Special Day Schools | In Special Residential Schools | In Maintained Primary & Secondary Schools | In Independent Schools | Not at. School | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | B | G | |
| Blind Pupils | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | 2 |
| Partially Sighted | ||||||||||||
| Pupils | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| Deaf Pupils | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 7 |
| Partially Deaf Pupils | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 11 |
| Educationally Sub | ||||||||||||
| normal Pupils | 69 | 47 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 82 | 55 |
| Epileptic Pupils | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Maladjusted Pupils | - | - | 24 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 5 | - | - | 43 | 12 |
| Physically Handi | ||||||||||||
| capped Pupils | 22 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 30 | 19 |
| Pupils with Speech | ||||||||||||
| Defects | - | - | - | 1 | 233 | 125 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 243 | 130 |
| Delicate Pupils | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 12 |
| Pupils with Multiple | ||||||||||||
| Defects | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 9 | 4 |
| Totals | 114 | 89 | 56 | 26 | 254 | 131 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 447 | 258 |
| Grand Totals | V 203 | V 82 | V 385 | 25 | 10 | 705 | ||||||
Details are given in the Appendix of the special schools attended by children shown
in the above table.